Reject Carafano's premise that China is a military threat.
From the autocratic Shang Dynasty of 1500 BC to the present, China
has never been an Asian power either economically or militarily.
By analogy, Persia of 350 BC considered itself a world power and
determined to teach those uppity Greeks a lesson.
Then it met Alexander at Arbela and was destroyed in a day.
Size is a function of geography, while achievement is driven by wisdom.
The power in Asia has been and remains Japan as history attests.